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Comparison

Prisma Postgres vs Xata

Compare categories, runtimes, pricing, regions, infrastructure, and platform trade-offs.

Comparison space

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Comparison facts

Platform

Hosting model
BYOC
Not supported
BYOC
Supported
Managed
Supported
Managed
Supported
Self-Hosted
Not supported
Self-Hosted
Supported
Database compatibility
PostgreSQL
Supported
PostgreSQL
Supported
Services
Managed Databases
Supported
Managed Databases
Supported
Database capabilities
Automated Backups
Supported
Automated Backups
Not recorded
Automatic Failover
Not recorded
Automatic Failover
Supported
Compute Autoscaling
Supported
Compute Autoscaling
Not recorded
Database Branching
Not recorded
Database Branching
Supported
Read Replicas
Not recorded
Read Replicas
Supported
Scale to Zero
Not recorded
Scale to Zero
Supported

Pricing

Compute billing
Plan based Prisma Plans
Plan based Xata Offerings
Storage
  • Storage (Starter) — $2.00 · per GB above allowance
  • Storage (Pro) — $1.50 · per GB above allowance
  • Storage — $0.28 · per GB-month
I/O / requests
  • Database operations (Starter) — $8 · per million operations above allowance
  • Database operations (Pro) — $2 · per million operations above allowance
Unknown
Free entry / commitment
Recurring free allowances No card required
Free plan Available in public plans

Infrastructure & Availability

Infrastructure provider
Unknown
  • Amazon Web Services
  • Microsoft Azure
  • Google Cloud Platform
  • Hetzner
  • Customer-operated Kubernetes, bare-metal, and on-premises infrastructure
  • Customer-operated Kubernetes infrastructure
Execution & placement
  • Execution: Single Region
  • Placement: Customer-Selected
  • Scope: Regional
  • Execution: Single Region
  • Execution: Multi Region
  • Scope: Regional
Availability footprint
  • Database regions: 6 Regions
Unknown

Resource & Execution Limits

Storage
Unknown
1,024 GiB Per branch
Connections
10 / 100 / 500 / 1,000 Concurrent; Free / Starter / Pro / Business
Unknown
Replica / branch limit
Unknown
15 minutes-3 hours Per branch

Security & Compliance

Access & identity
Access Control
Unknown
Scoped API keys and Enterprise RBAC Keys can be limited by branch and capability
Single Sign-On
Unknown
SAML Enterprise
Encryption & secrets
Encryption
Encryption at rest and in transit All plans
Unknown
Encryption at Rest
Unknown
Xata managed databases
Encryption in Transit
Unknown
TLS Xata service connections
Assurances & programs
HIPAA
HIPAA support with signed BAA Business plan; BAA required before storing PHI
Unknown
SOC Reports
SOC 2 Type II Business plan
Unknown